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Post by Riasat Abir.

Reset Windows Admin password with sticky keys trick!

Have you forgotten the admin password of your windows? Don't worry there is a sticky keys trick if you have the windows installation disk.

When you press SHIFT keys 5 times, it enables sticky keys. What you have to do exchange the Command Prompt Application (cmd.exe) with Sticky Key Application (sethc.exe) so that when you will press the sticky keys it will open the Command Prompt Application and you can reset the password from there!

To reset a forgotten administrator password, follow these steps:

1. Boot from Windows PE or Windows RE and access the command prompt. Select Repair mode for Windows Vista or 7.
2. Find the drive letter of the partition where Windows is installed. In Vista and Windows XP, it is usually C:, in Windows 7, it is D: in most cases because the first partition contains Startup Repair. To find the drive letter, type C: (or D:, respectively) and search for the Windows folder. Note that Windows PE (RE) usually resides on X:.
3. Type the following command (replace “c:” with the correct drive letter if Windows is not located on C:):
   copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\
   This creates a copy of sethc.exe to restore later.
4. Type this command to replace sethc.exe with cmd.exe:
   copy /y c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exeReboot your computer and start the Windows installation where you forgot the administrator password.
5. After you see the logon screen, press the SHIFT key five times.
6. You should see a command prompt where you can enter the following command to reset the Windows password (see screenshot above):
   net user your_user_name new_password
   If you don’t know your user name, just type net user to list the available user names.
7. You can now log on with the new password.

I recommend that you replace sethc.exe with the copy you stored in the root folder of your system drive in step 3. For this, you have to boot up again with Windows PE or RE because you can’t replace system files while the Windows installation is online. Then you have to enter this command:

copy /y c:\sethc.exe c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe

How to save Skype video messages!

From Skype 6.5 and above skype shows the video messages in its window. So you will not be able to download it normally!

But you can download it from the Skype server!

First download a SQLite browser to browse the main database.

I downloaded it from here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlitebrowser/

Run the browser and open the main.db database file of Skype.
The database file can be found in the following location of windows 7 or 8:

%appdata%/Skype/USER_NAME/

Now click on the Browse Data tab. Select table Video Messages. You will get the links of your video messages in Skype server under vod_path column!

Now copy the link from the table and paste it into Internet Explorer to download it. Enjoy your video message! :)